Which T.V. show is the most realistic?

Which T.V. show is the most realistic?

  • Adam-12

    Votes: 19 30.2%

  • Blue Knight

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • CSI (any)

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • Hawaii Five-O (old or new)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hill Street Blues

    Votes: 11 17.5%

  • In the Heat of the Night

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Law and Order (any)

    Votes: 8 12.7%

  • Miami Vice

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • NCIS (any)

    Votes: 6 9.5%

  • NYPD Blue

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • The Shield

    Votes: 9 14.3%
  • Total voters
    63
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I can tell you CSI is the worst. Maybe not as far as firearms go, but these people are superhuman. In Criminal Justice, they have something called the CSI effect, which basically means that jury's were letting criminals go or disbelieving that the suspect did the crime due to lack of evidence such as DNA. They dont have DNA, fingerprints, hair or perfect balistic matches for everything. There is a saying that evidence is left at every crime scene, the hard part is finding it.
 
How about "Cops" ?
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COPS is probably the most realistic, albeit a little showy. There is also The First 48 which follows real homicide detectives around large cities. All cop dramas are way too fast-paced. The End of Watch movie that Jake Gyllenhaal was in was too fast-paced, and a little over the top, but if you want to see what riding in a police car can be like, look no further.

Consider the source here, but there is a woman living in the town I live in who was on COPS. She said the officer told her she was going to be placed under arrest for something, and even put her in the back of the car, but after the cameras were off he just cited and released her for a lesser, related crime.
 
Most people don't know this but at one time Adam-12 was used by the Japanese Police as a training program. They naturally dubbed it from English to Japanese but the tactics, weapons, and ethics shown were right on the money at that time.
 
Ahh yes Barney. He could deploy that bullit from his shirt pocket he carried pretty fast.
I guess the most realistic would be seen on the History Channel
I enjoyed watching the rifleman flip that little Winchester around when young.
 
I just watched "Agent Booth" muzzle sweep "Agent Sweets" on Bones after shooting his 1911 (clone?) at a shooting range without the slide locking open meaning that there was still one in the pipe while he was sweeping the other agent to remove the magazine. Of course that's both wrong and arguably realistic. Other than not emptying the firearm at the line.

I just watched two back to back Season 9 CSI-NY episodes actually "Teach" the one-in-the-chamber lesson. Not that any of the rest of it is all that realistic. When it comes to computers, or firearms Hollywood rarely gets it right.

Edit to Add the Ultimate proof: Select Fire weapons are all you need to point to to see which modern setting show gets it right or wrong.

First off, every New York setting show is off the list. There aren't that many handguns in the entire city. Let alone people with a license to carry them.

Second, any show with more than one automatic weapon during it's entire series history is wrong.
 
Count the clicks. See on every show when the officers pull their guns - how many cocking, hammer clicks, racking sounds you hear.

I think this thread may be dead as the opening premise was faulty. None of them pass the mid line of the realism / unrealistic continuum.
 
Count the clicks. See on every show when the officers pull their guns - how many cocking, hammer clicks, racking sounds you hear.
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You mean the police in real life don't keep the hammer on their DA semi auto with a decocking lever down on an empty chamber?

And when they slap in a new magazine in a combat reload, then slingshot the slide that's wrong?
 
Now earlier I mentioned Deputy Barney Fife, an influential figure in law enforcement training. In this bit of video he addresses a group of special deputies to the Mayberry P.D. on the proper use of firearms. You can see for yourself the realism involved and the influence of Deputy Fife's instruction in that so many have followed his example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsg0EvZozI

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I can tell you CSI is the worst. Maybe not as far as firearms go, but these people are superhuman. In Criminal Justice, they have something called the CSI effect, which basically means that jury's were letting criminals go or disbelieving that the suspect did the crime due to lack of evidence such as DNA. They dont have DNA, fingerprints, hair or perfect balistic matches for everything. There is a saying that evidence is left at every crime scene, the hard part is finding it.
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Although I'm a fan of the show for the actors and movie settings (NY and Vegas), they have very unreal plots and outcomes for the crimes.

Most of the crimes are solved in a day, and they somehow can always magically track down anyone involved in a crime -- which in reality is far from the truth. And they can even track people down based on the sole of their shoes or the tires on their cars. Granted there are millions of these sold across the US this is a near-impossible feat.
I won't even get started with the gun-related inaccuracies...
 
I never expect a show to get stuff like tactics and fight scenes 100% right, but I do appreciate shows that have realistic gun handling as far as safety, but also excessive racking of slides, the imaginary third shot of a double barrel shotgun, and magazines that magically fit all models of guns when picked up from a bad guy.
 
I picked NCIS, not because it's terribly realistic, but because they look comfortable handling their weapons (at least their handguns), like it's completely natural to them. And they don't chamber a round every two seconds. Law & Order is better than CSI, only in the sense that CSI is horrible and L&O is merely terrible:D.
 
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